| 前 | qián | front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly |
| 名 | míng | name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people |
| 药 | yào | medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) / CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4] / to poison |
| 座 | zuò | seat / base / stand / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address, e.g. 师座|师座[shi1 zuo4] / CL:個|个[ge4] / classifier for buildings, mountains and similar immovable objects |
| 词语 | cí yǔ | word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression |
| 位 | wèi | position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential |
| 查 | chá | to research / to check / to investigate / to examine / to refer to / to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary) |
| 斤 | jīn | catty / (PRC) weight equal to 500 g / (Tw) weight equal to 600 g / (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g |
| 推动 | tuī dòng | to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to |
| 年代 | nián dài | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 强 | qiáng | strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2] |
| 制度 | zhì dù | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc) / institution / CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 路线 | lù xiàn | itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL:條|条[tiao2] |
| 贴 | tiē | to stick / to paste / to post (e.g. on a blog) / to keep close to / to fit snugly / to subsidize / allowance (e.g. money for food or housing) / sticker / classifier for sticking plaster: strip |
| 之间 | zhī jiān | (after a noun) between; among; amid / (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间[tan2 zhi3 zhi1 jian1]) |
| 根 | gēn | root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL:條|条[tiao2] / radical (chemistry) |
| 引 | yǐn | to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters |
| 登 | dēng | to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) |
| 规律 | guī lǜ | rule (e.g. of science) / law of behavior / regular pattern / rhythm / discipline |
| 失败 | shī bài | to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:次[ci4] |
| 词汇 | cí huì | vocabulary / list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes) / word |
| 填空 | tián kòng | to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on questionnaire or exam paper) |
| 套餐 | tào cān | set meal / (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription) |
| 挡 | dǎng | to resist / to obstruct / to hinder / to keep off / to block (a blow) / to get in the way of / cover / gear (e.g. in a car's transmission) |
| 暂停 | zàn tíng | to suspend / time-out (e.g. in sports) / stoppage / pause (media player) |